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"The world's first personalized shopping magazine" announces raising $1M seed funding today and launches iPad app.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Pickie, a personalized shopping magazine available on the iPad app store starting today, raised a million dollars from DFJ Gotham, Betaworks, Liberty City Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, MESA+ and several angel investors including Jon Steinberg, David Tisch, Lars Albright, Andy Miller and Eric Stein.
Pickie is co-founded by CEO Sonia Sahney Nagar, a former product manager at Amazon. She shares some good advice for entrepreneurs – "During TechStars, David Tisch gave me the advice that for early-stage companies, the biggest factor in getting a deal done, and getting the terms you want, is confidence. It's true. Be consistently, unapologetically confident," said CEO Sonia Sahney Nagar of Pickie.
"The tech ecosystem in NYC is now creating and nourishing world class female entrepreneurs in increasing numbers. Sonia is a great example and we look forward to working with her and the rest of the Pickie team," said Joy Marcus, a partner at DFJ Gotham which invested in Pickie.
"Social commerce is a big opportunity and there are a lot of smart folks working on figuring out how we will shop," explained Danny Schultz, a founding partner and Managing Director of DFJ Gotham. "Sonia and her team are an exceptional group of people – the right mix of experience, skills and deep consumer insight to crack the code."
"I think one of the keys to closing our funding was the strength of our team. There are a lot of people that are trying to build startups in eCommerce, but we've built a team that has a ton of relevant technical and topical expertise. We plan to use the funding to expand our team (we're hiring engineers) which will help us grow more rapidly," said Pickie's Sonia Sahney Nagar.
Starting today, Pickie is available in the iPad app store. A shopping app that is part magazine, part catalog. Here's the brilliant part – all the products featured in Pickie available for purchase. In fact, all products in the app are tailored to your interests and tastes, taking into account your personal style, favorite brands and the latest trending products from across their your retailers and social feeds.
Women 2.0 readers: What do you think of the newly released Pickie iPad app? Let us know in the comments.
Angie Chang is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Women 2.0, a media company offering content, community and conferences for aspiring and current women innovators in technology. Our mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups with inspiration, information and education through our platform. Previously, Angie held roles in product management and web UI design. Angie holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Follow her on Twitter at @thisgirlangie.


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Pentax K-50 DSLR with 18-55 f-3.5-5.6 DA-L WR Lens (Black)
Product Code: PX10894
Availability:Out of stock
Pentax K-50 DSLR with 18-55 f-3.5-5.6 DA-L WR Lens (Black)
Product Code: PX10894
Availability:Out of stock
- APS-C CMOS based mid-level DSLR with 16.3 megapixel
- 6 fps continuous shooting speed at full resolution
- Full HD video recording
- Weather sealed reinforced polycarbonate body over a stainless steel chassis
- 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 DA-L WR Lens with a focal length range of 18-55mm equivalent to 27.5 84.5mm on a 35mm format
- 11 elements arranged in 8 groups
- 6 diaphragm blades
K-50 Digital SLR with 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 DA-L WR Lens is designed around a 16.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and housed inside a tough stainless steel chassis with reinforced polycarbonate over it for weather sealing. The camera is suitable for sports, wildlife and adventure photography because of its rugged all-weather construction, full HD video recording, 6 fps burst rate and a body based sensor-shift type image stabilization system. It comes bundled with the 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 DA-L WR kit lens which covers the standard focal length range for shooting portraits, landscape and other general purpose everyday photography.
Serious. Color.
Forget conformity, and get serious with the PENTAX K-50, a mid-level DSLR with fast, advanced functionality, all wrapped up in your own bold colors. Featuring specifications of a top level DSLR, enjoy a 16 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, fast continuous shooting at six frames per second, ISO up to 51200, 100% field of view, innovative in-body shake reduction, and an advanced auto focus module with four optional focusing screens, not to mention the PENTAX-original weather-sealing. Even with features this generous, the K-50 is also available in 120 customizable, brilliant color combinations that are sure to match your personality and style. The K-50s approachable, easy ergonomics is perfect for families and everyday photography, complete with a wide selection of creative tools and filters for limitless personalized expressions. Get ready to stand out from the crowd and wear your colors on your camera. Its your camera, and your colors, with the PENTAX K-50.
Customizable in 120 colors
Stand out from the crowd and carry your colors with your camera. Select from 120 different color combinations to custom create a DSLR as unique as you are.
PRIME M Image Processing Engine
PRIME M image processing engine is optimized for HD video capture, smooth live view, low chromatic noise, and low energy consumption.
High Precision SAFOX IXi+ Auto Focusing
Advanced SAFOX IXi+ autofocus engine, with AF assist lamp and light source detection sensor, features improved optical components, including a diffraction lens, for responsive autofocus in any lighting.
Pentaprism Viewfinder for 100% Field of View & 4 optional Focusing Screens
What you see is what you get with the low profile glass pentaprism viewfinder, with four interchangeable focusing screens, achieves a 100% optical field of view for framing accuracy in a highly compact form factor.
Fully Weather-sealed, Dustproof, Coldproof Design
With 81 weather seals throughout the entire body, your K-50 ensures worry-free use in any weather condition or outdoor setting, be it rain or sand. The K-50s rugged, coldproof design is also made for perfect use in sub-freezing, wet, snowy winter conditions (-10C, 14F).
Innovative In-body Shake Reduction (SR) Mechanism
The PENTAX in-body, sensor-shift Shake and Dust Reduction technology ensures sharp, image stabilized, auto-leveled, and dust-free imaging with any mounted lens.
Large High Resolution 3 inch LCD
Large 3 inch LCD with brightness and color adjustments is wide angle viewable, and features 921,000 dots of resolution.
K-Mount Compatible with 25 Million PENTAX lenses
The PENTAX K-mount is compatible with every single K-mount lens ever made. Choose from over 25 million PENTAX lenses to use with your K-50whether you're a novice or an expert, there's a PENTAX lens that lets you capture your interesting view of the world.
16 MP APS-C CMOS Sensor
A high performance 16 megapixel APS-C CMOS image sensor strikes the perfect balance between resolution and image quality.
Fast Shutter speed up to 1/6000
A maximum 1/6000 second shutter speed freezes sports and fast action without subject movement blur.
Eye-Fi Card Compatibility
With Eye-Fi wireless LAN SD memory cards, the user can automatically transmit recorded images to a smartphone. New built-in menus allow the user to easily enable automatic transmission of images and video to a smartphone for rapid sharing. Users can even select favorite images and resize them before transmission.
In-body raw development and HDR shooting
Enjoy in-body raw development and in-camera HDR shooting mode, featuring multiple blending options to bring out the detail in wide gamut still imaging.
Enhanced Creative Modes, multilayer filtering opportunities
Choose from 11 types of custom image modes and 19 digital filters, all with multi layering capabilities, for more creative expression than you ever dreamt of. The K-50 lets you show off your unique visions with real, high-resolution images.
Standard Lithium-ion battery or optional use of AA-size batteries
Compatible with both rechargeable Li-Ion and AA batteries (via optional AA battery holder) for plentiful power at home or while travelling.
Traditional, Auto Picture and Scene modes
Traditional shooting modes feature PENTAX Sensitivity Priority (Sv) and Shutter And Aperture Priority (TAv) for outstanding flexibility, while powerful automatic modes like Auto Picture and Scene modes take the guesswork out of great photography.
6 frames per second continuous shooting
A fast 6 FPS frame rate captures fast action shots in dynamic shooting situations.
ISO Speeds up to 51200
High sensitivity shooting up to 51200 ISO range improves noise performance throughout, even in low lighting.
Full 1080p h.264 HD video recording
Full 1080p HD video capture at 30 frames per second (60 FPS for 720p) features efficient h.264 compression, flexible exposure control, and HDR finishing options for stunning video quality.
Programmable front & rear e-dials
Programmable front and rear e-dials enable PENTAX renowned Hyper Program and Manual modes, as well as other rapid no-look settings changes.
Dual-axis electronic level
For high precision horizontal and vertical alignment, use the electronic dual-axis level to make sure your shot is perfectly aligned with the horizon or framed just the way you want it. Measure both side-to-side and forward to backward tilt for the ideal shot.
77 segment metering system
Highly accurate 77 segment metering system produces beautifully exposed images and video, even in complex lighting situations.
This lens blends versatility with affordability, giving the casual photographer a broader canvas without having to carry a multitude of lenses. Plus, its weather-resistant to handle damp, inclement conditions. Great wide-angle capability with a standard 3X zoom range.
The smc PENTAX DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 DA-L WR features the ideal standard zoom focal range for a wide range of shooting applications.
The PENTAX-original SP (Super Protect) coating repels dust, water and grease to keep your lens clean and your image quality at its peak.
The focal length is equivalent to 27mm-84.5mm in the 35mm format.
Weather-resistant to handle damp, inclement conditions.
Aspherical elements help to compensate for spherical aberration.
Developed specifically for PENTAX digital SLR cameras.
Digital SLR
CMOS w primary color filter, integrated Shake/Dust Reduction sensor movement system
23.7 x 15.7mm (APS-C)
Color depth
8 bits/channel JPG, 12 bits / channel RAW
Effective pixels (total pixels)
Dust Removal
Sensor movement w SP coating on low pass filter
Pixel mapping
PENTAX KAF2 bayonet stainless steel mount
Usable lenses
PENTAX KAF3, KAF2, KAF, and KA (K mount, 35mm screw-mount, 645/67 med format lenses useable w adapter and/or restrictions)
SDM function
Power zoom function
SAFOX IXi+ TTL phase-detection 11 point (9 cross) wide autofocus system w light
wavelength sensor and diffraction lens
Sensitivity range
EV -1 to 18 (ISO 100)
Focus modes
AF.A (auto), AF.S (single, w focus lock, focus/shutter priority selectable), AF.C (continuous, w focus/FPS priority selectable), Manual
Focus point adjustment
Auto 11 pt., Auto 5 pt., User-Selectable (w Expanded Area AF), Center
AF assist
Yes via dedicated LED AF assist lamp
Focus peaking
Yes (n/a during active video recording)
Coverage (field of view)
0.92X (w 50mm F1.4 at infinity)
Standard focusing screen
Natural-Bright-Matte III (interchangeable)
Diopter adjustment
-2.5m to +1.5m
Depth of field preview
Optical (diaphragm stop-down), digital
3.0 TFT color LCD w brightness / color adjustment
921,000 dots
Wide angle viewable
Retractable P-TTL pop-up flash
Guide number
12m (ISO 100)
28mm wide angle equivalent
Flash modes
P-TTL, Red-eye Reduction, Slow-speed Sync, Trailing Curtain Sync
Flash exposure compensation
-2 to +1 EV (1/3 steps)
Hotshoe (P-TTL), high speed sync and wireless w PENTAX dedicated flash
Synchronization speed
1/180 sec
Internal memory
Removable memory
SD, SDHC, SDXC, (Eye-Fi Card compatible)
USB 2.0 hi-speed, AV out
USB Connection
Video out
Built-in monaural
Power source
Rechargeable Li-Ion battery D-LI109 (included), AA battery holder D-BH109 for 4* AA batteries (sold separately)
Recordable images
Li-Ion approx. 480 (410 w 50% flash, CIPA), AA lithium approx. 1250 (710 w 50% flash, CIPA)
Playback time
Li-Ion approx. 270 min, AA lithium approx. 560 min
Movie recording time
25 min max time per clip
AC adapter available
Yes. K-AC128 (sold separately)
Body dimensions (W x H x D)
5.1 x 3.8 x 2.8
Body weight
Without battery or removable memory: 20.8 oz
Loaded and ready: 22.9 oz (Li-Ion)
Primary construction material(s)
Reinforced polycarbonate over stainless steel chassis
Operating temperature
14-104°F (-10 to 40°C)
Ruggedized features
Fully weather sealed throughout body, coldproof
Sensor-shift SR w rotational compensation (3 stops avg CIPA, 4 stops max)
TTL open aperture 77 segment metering
Sensitivity range
EV 0 to 22 (ISO 100, 50mm F1.4)
Metering patterns (multi, center, spot)
Multi 77, Center, Spot
Exposure compensation
+/- 5 EV (1/3 and 1/2 steps)
Exposure lock
Exposure bracketing
3 frames, up to +/- 3 EV in 1/3 or 1/2 steps
100-51200 (1, 1/2, 1/3 steps), auto range selectable
100-51200 (1, 1/2, 1/3 steps)
Image sensor detection w light wavelength sensor detection
Auto preset modes
Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, (D: Daylight Color, N:
Daylight White, W: Cool White, L: Warm White), Tungsten, Flash, CTE
Manual mode(s)
a) 3 manual settings can be configured and saved, b) Kelvin color
temperatures can be selected, c) WB settings can be copied from a captured image
WB fine adjustment: +/- 7 steps A-B axis or G-M axis
Electronically controlled, vertical-run, focal plane shutter
Shutter speed
Auto: 1/6000 to 30 sec., Manual: 1/6000 to 30 sec. (1/3EV steps or 1/2EV steps),
Mode selection
Hyper Program (P), Sensitivity Priority (Sv), Shutter Priority (Tv), Aperture Priority (Av), Shutter & Aperture Priority (TAv), Hyper Manual (M), Bulb (B), User (U1, U2), Scene (SCN), Auto Picture (AUTO), Movie
Auto Picture modes
Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Moving Object, Night Scene Portrait, Night Scene, Blue Sky, Forest
Scene modes
Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Moving Object, Night Scene Portrait, Sunset, Blue Sky, Forest, Night Scene, Night Scene HDR (JPG), Night Snap, Food, Pet, Kids, Surf & Snow, Backlight Silhouette, Candlelight, Stage Lighting, Museum
Custom Image modes
Bright, Natural, Portrait, Landscape, Vibrant, Radiant, Muted, Bleach Bypass, Reversal Film, Monochrome, Cross Processing
Green simplified mode available
Face detection available
P, A, S, M, B (extended modes Sv, TAv)
Date stamp
Digital filters (capture)
Extract Color, Toy Camera, Retro, High Contrast, Shading, Invert Color, Color
Dynamic range adjustment
Highlight, shadow
Digital level
Viewfinder (horizontal), LCD (horizontal, vertical), SR auto-level function
File/Folder customization
Folder name (standard, date), create new folder, embed copyright
Mode selection
Single, Continuous (Hi, Lo), Self-Timer (12s, 2s), Remote (0s, 3s), Exposure Bracketing (3 frames)
Continuous FPS
- Continuous Hi: approx. 6.0 FPS (30 JPG, 8 RAW)
- Continuous Lo: approx. 3.0 FPS (unlimited JPG, 10 RAW)
2-9 shots, auto exposure adjustment
999 shots, 3 sec to 24 hr interval, time delay
Auto, HDR 1, HDR 2, HDR 3, pixel alignment, exposure bracket +/- 1-3 EV (1/1 steps)
Cable switch
Yes CS-205 (sold separately)
Mode selection
Single frame, Multi-image display (4, 9, 16, 36, 81 segmentation), Display magnification (up to 16x, scrolling and quick magnification available), rotating, histogram, bright/dark area warning, copyright display, calendar filmstrip, display, folder display, slideshow, Eye-Fi transfer
Mode pallet
Image Rotation, Digital Filter, Resize, Cropping, Index Print, Protect, Slideshow, Save as Manual WB, Save Cross Processing, RAW Development, Movie Edit, DPOF
Digital filters (playback)
Monochrome, Extract Color, Toy Camera, Retro, High Contrast, Shading, Invert Color, Color, Tone Expansion, Sketch Filter, Water Color, Pastel, Posterization, Miniature, Soft, Starburst, Fish-eye, Slim, Base Parameter Adjustment
Recorded resolutions
16M (4928x3264), 12M (4224x2816), 8M (3456x2304), 5M (2688x1792)
RAW (4928x3264)
Quality levels: ??? (Best), ?? (Better), ? (Good)
File formats
RAW (DNG), JPG (EXIF 2.3), DCF 2.0 compliant, DPOF, PIM III
Color space
sRGB, AdobeRGB
Functions available
Windows XP (SP3 or later 32-bit Home/Pro), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), Win 7 (32-bit, 64-bit)
Win 8, (can be run as a 32-bit application on any 64-bit edition of Windows).
Mac OS X, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8
- USB Cable I-USB7
- Battery Charger Kit K-BC109(A)
- Strap O-ST132
- Eyecup FR
- Software CD-ROM S-SW138
- Li-Ion Battery D-LI109
- AC Plug Cord D-C02J
- Hotshoe Cover FK
- Body Mount Cover
- smc PENTAX-DA-L 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR

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Amazon:No – but click to check official page
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Daily information about the postal strikes in the UK and London, check here for details on if there is a Royal Mail Postal Strike. Site updated every day with the current information regarding the strike. Find out if the post strike effects just your delivery or collection and when the strike is due to be over.
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De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.
The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ u ("not") and τόπος tópos ("place"), with the topographical suffix… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1515
Word count: 43,414 words (≈ about 3 hours)
Source: http://en.wikisource.org
Copyright: Public Domain
A list of utopia/dystopia books.Utopia is a fictional island near the coast of the atlantic ocean written about by Sir Thomas More as the fictional...
The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and...


text: Pubdate: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 Source: Quad-City Times (IA) Section: 2D, Nation/World, Below fold Copyright: 2005 Quad-City Times Contact: http://www.qctimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/857 Author: Associated Press Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/George+Bush ON SECRET TAPE, BUSH IMPLIES HE USED MARIJUANA NEW YORK - Private conversations with George Bush secretly taped by an old friend before he was elected president foreshadow some of his political strategies and appear to reveal that he acknowledged using marijuana, The New York Times reported Saturday. The conversations were recorded by Doug Wead, a former aide to George W. Bush's father, beginning in 1998, when Bush was weighing a presidential bid, until just before the Republican National Convention in 2000, the Times said in a story posted on its Web site. The tapes show Bush crafting a strategy for navigating the tricky political waters between Christian conservative and secular voters, repeatedly worrying that evangelicals would be angered by a refusal to bash gays and that secular Americans would be turned off by meetings with evangelical leaders. On one tape, Bush explains that he told one prominent evangelical that he would not "kick gays, because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?" In early tapes, Bush dismisses the strength of John McCain for the nomination and expresses concern about rival Steve Forbes. He also praises John Ashcroft as a promising candidate for Supreme Court justice, attorney general or vice president. Bush also criticizes then-Vice President Al Gore for admitting marijuana use and explains why he would not do the same. "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions," he said, according to the Times. "You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried." According to the article, Wead played 12 of the tapes to a Times reporter. He said he recorded them because he viewed Bush as a historic figure. He is the author of a new book on presidential childhoods. The White House did not deny the authenticity of the tapes. "The governor was having casual conversations with someone he believed was his friend," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said, referring to Bush. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth


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A new survey reports that consumers want better access to, and an understanding of their blood test results. It found that while
"nearly 90 percent of people would prefer to discuss blood test results during a doctor's visit, only about 40 percent have discussed their results in person, primarily because the results were either mailed or emailed to the patient or the patient never received the results. In addition, some respondents reported that providers told them to assume everything was okay if the doctor did not notify them about the results."
As a result, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors have launched a "Know Your Numbers" Educational Campaign in Conjunction with National Health Literacy Month. These two groups
"convened representatives from government, business, healthcare professional groups and consumer advocates to examine the state of the nation's health literacy regarding blood tests. The result of this effort, "Fundamentals to Wellness and Prevention: A Call to Action," is a report that encourages business, healthcare and government leaders to work together to help consumers become more aware of the importance of blood tests, facilitate timely access to test results and help consumers understand their blood test "numbers" so they can translate the knowledge into action."
One would hope that these groups would also include librarians from public and health libraries, who are also "consumer advocates" that can put such important medical information before the public quickly, easily and for free.
Do you understand the information from your blood tests? Did you have the opportunity to discuss the results with a physician, or were you told that the doctor would call if there was a problem? Tell us about it!


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Music K-8 Vol. 8 Full Year (1997-98)
From Plank Road Publishing
We are offering all five issues and the five CDs that go with them as specially boxed sets to save you money.
Music K-8 magazine has introduced a number of new concepts to the area of elementary music publishing. Probably the most popular one has been the fact that a subscriber has the right to legally reproduce the music in each magazine for every student she or he teaches, no matter how many schools or students are involved. In the magazine, we provide a Piano/Vocal Part and illustrated Lyric Page for most of the songs.
Student Reproducible Parts, which are now available separately for this entire volume, contain every recorded tune with the singers' parts extracted for fast, less expensive photocopying.
To hear sound clips from and read details about any song in any issue, visit the Past Issues area.
Important Note: CDs and PartsCDs and Student Reproducible Parts for Music K-8 will only be sold to customers who own the corresponding magazines, as it is the ownership of these magazines that conveys the use and performance rights for the music and materials found in them.
About the Audio RecordingsAudio recordings contain full performance and accompaniment only (instrumental) tracks.


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Clear call quality, a decent 5-megapixel shooter
Exceptional call quality, Good fit and finish
Inexpensive given its feature set, Excellent battery life
Large and bright screen, Affordable, Lightweight and comfortable design
Good picture quality
Supports 4G, MicroSD card support, Clean user interface
Inconsistent performance, Unimaginative design
Low price, 4G connectivity, microSD card slot, runs Android 4.2
Free under contract, has long-lasting battery life
Employs some of the new LG Optimus UI enhancements
Amazing battery life, Solid build quality
Sluggish benchmark performance, Lackluster camera
Good design, 4G connectivity, Excellent value for money
LTE module, high contrast, good images
High pixel densitiy screen, over 250ppi
A zippy dual-core processor, and excellent battery life
Nice looking display for a mid-ranger
Large, sharp display, Great call quality
Bright screen, Good proprietary software tools
8-megapixel camera, and full HD video support
Stylish, thin and light handset
Beautiful design, Fast performance
Pure Android 4.0 option, Smooth and fast
4G enabled, Decent battery life
Good quality screen
Low-resolution screen, Average specs
Midrange handset with 4G, good battery life
Phone runs on a slow processor
Big and heavy, Poor battery life
Feels like a brick, Very outdated software
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R/H Protector
- Protects lower area against scratches
A comprehensive selection of pre-owned motorcycles that bears the esteemed BMW Motorrad stamp of quality and approval.
Keep your BMW Motorcycle in mint condition with a Bavarian Motorcycles Extended Warranty.
Book a test ride on your dream motorcycle before you buy at Bavarian Motorcycles in Centurion.


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Let's not also forget the smell of fresh, crisp snow!
Let's not also forget the smell of fresh, crisp snow!
^ first snow smells lovely.
Well, my christmas smells are pine, hyacinth, mince pies, candles and gingerbread.
Weird as it sounds, but PAINT. My dad made it a point to paint our house in a new color every Christmas time.
They just opened a Bath & Bodyworks at the mall right by my house, and they have a wide array of WONDERFUL 'Holiday' scented Candles.
My favorites are the Snow Apple Mint and Fresh Balsam - they're both so strongly connected to Christmas!!!
Also (and I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet!) the smell of a Turkey roasting in the oven!
"Christmas: it's not the giving, it's not the getting, it's the loving." - Garfield
I'm Admin of AllThingsChristmas Forum - Click Here to Message Me with questions or if you need help!
The smell of the cookies I bake, the day I start decorate home for Christmas...
When 1st day is over and have almost finish with living room, I go to the kitchen and
start baking my fav chocolate chip cookies. Late in the night, I put them in Christmas jars...
Honestly, that smell takes me back to my childhood...
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
love your picture gingerbread girl! such a beautiful setting and gets me all festive!
the smell of pine needles when you walk down the street past the xmas tree stalls or when u finally get one in your front room!
also mulled wine is sooo good..
Hands down, the smell of Struffoli. Christmas Honey Balls. I remember standing around as a kid waiting for them to finish..
"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." ~Charles Dickens


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We gave you a brief rundown on how Civilization World, the upcoming Facebook version of the classic PC strategy series, worked the other day. Now you can see for yourself in this trailer.
Those expecting the same game, only running in a browser with a Facebook logo on the top, will be sorely disappointed. Those hoping the more casual medium would let them try something a little more collaborative, well, the idea of co-operative "nations" sounds pretty cool.
Civ World will hopefully be out this Summer.


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Jacaranda Guitar Ensemble
- December 28, 2013 2:00 PM
In conjunction with Mexico: Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, the Jacaranda Guitar Ensemble will play the music of contemporary Mexican composer Ernesto García de León. De Leon from Veracruz, Mexico currently lives in Mexico City where he teaches at UNAM. His improvisational style of writing reflects the spontaneity in today's world while his musical melodies and rhythms are distinctly Mexican. The program will consist of solos, duos and a guitar quartet.
Members of the ensemble are Leslie Enlow, Pedro Haley, Carlo Pezzimenti, and Brian Rowe
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British authorities are searching for a man who assaulted a 60-year-old woman who has Alzheimer's disease. Joy Watson was enjoying a meal at a roadside cafe when she saw a man allegedly mistreating his dog. Watson approached the man and his wife and told them if they didn't stop, she would call the police.
"I then saw this lady and gentleman. The man had a huge Alsatian. He was having trouble with it as he was pulling and tugging. The man then started kicking it," Watson told the Manchester Evening News. "I asked the lady if she knew him. She said she was his wife. I told her that if he did not stop attacking the dog, I would report him."
They told Watson to mind her own business and continued to put the dog into their car. When Watson informed them that the law required them to have their dog in a restraint, the man punched her in the face.
"He then thumped me, not a push. I think he saw my badge and must have considered me to be a soft touch. I went down and hit my head on the concrete ground. My nose was gushing with blood."
Watson, who was wearing a pin that said "I have Alzheimer's please be patient" suffered a broken eye socket and bloody nose as a result of the assault. The man and his wife fled in a blue or black sedan. The police are investigating the crime and say the assailant was in his 60s and wearing fawn and brown clothing.
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Dominica Postal Service asks us to inform the designated operators of other Union member countries that it is currently not in a position to receive mail. Dominica Postal Service estimates that it may be operational in about one month, owing to various challenges including:
– lack of electricity;
– damage to post office and Customs' computers and equipment;
– damaged vehicles used in the transportation of mail to and from the airport/post office;
– damaged surveillance cameras.
Dominica Postal Service kindly asks members to continue the suspension of all mail to Dominica until further notice.
Dominica Postal Service thanks all designated operators for their understanding and will update them once the situation has returned to normal.


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DIS Magazine are killin' it again with their newly released "Labor Issue" which examines work in the culture industry in an unstable, recession-ridden world. Jenna Sauers recounts how her modeling career kicked off her descent into debt, W.A.G.E share some of their propaganda, Marco Roso's photo essay shows how one can travel if a "fetishized commodity," Paul Mpagi Sepuya documents Chelsea gallery receptionists, and much more.
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We do not think that taking a stand for or against WikiLeaks is what matters most. WikiLeaks is here to stay, until it either scuttles itself or is destroyed by opposing forces. Our point is rather to (try to) assess and ascertain what WikiLeaks can, could — and maybe even should — do, and to help formulate how "we" could relate to and interact with WikiLeaks. Despite all its drawbacks, and against all odds, WikiLeaks has rendered a sterling service to the cause of transparency, democracy and openness. As the French would say, if something like it did not exist, it would have to be invented. The quantitative — and what looks soon to become the qualitative — turn of information overload is a fact of contemporary life. The glut of disclosable information can only be expected to continue grow — and exponentially so. To organize and interpret this Himalaya of data is a collective challenge that is clearly out there, whether we give it the name "WikiLeaks" or not.
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Inevitably, the fast pace of consumerism is accompanied by the tantalizing promise of slow time—Allen Ginsberg once complained of a heart attack en route to his weekly meditation.
Just as the arts were reinvented in the age of the camera, so too must they be in the age of accelerated time. If the internet and the touch screen represent the apparatuses of our age, then the material and the prolonged have become a niche for the discursive and formal role of the arts. Much like a spa, the arts play host to a malnourished subject eager to experience something nostalgically other. Slow time and tangible bodies become so rare experientially that their aesthetic value finds a home in the cul-de-sac of scarcity that is art.
Since the advent of mechanical production, the arts have been the space in which the hard-to-find seeks refuge. And while the art market has been much discussed, we now find another form of scarcity in forms of experience. At times in tension, at times in collusion with capitalist scarcity, the scarcity of experience encourages forms of art that are not as easily distributed as—and thus more distinguishable from—the mass produced goods of the broader market. Massive installations, sculptures, performance, civic institutions (the museum), time-based relational aesthetics all find value in their experiential distinction from larger markets. Museums offer special opportunities to experience the body in space. In this spasmodic era, we find the arts recalibrated as a temporal, spatial, and bodily escape.
This kind of shifted aesthetic disposition resists not only the pace of the information economy, but, perhaps more importantly, our very ability to consume our experience. If we are frantic, it is only because we need to ...
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This rich pamphlet grew out of The Internet as Playground and Factory, a conference organized at The New School and held in November 2009. In this seventh pamphlet in the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu reflect on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space, where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. Online and off, Internet users are increasingly wielded as a resource for economic amelioration, for private capture, and the channels of communication are becoming increasingly inscrutable. The Internet has become a simple-to-join, anyone-can-play system where the sites and practices of work and play, as well as production and reproduction, are increasingly unnoticeable.
Norbert Wiener warned that the role of new technology under capitalism would intensify the exploitation of workers. For Michel Foucault, institutions used technologies of power to control individual bodies. In her essay "Free Labor" (1999), Tiziana Terranova described what constitutes "voluntarily given, unwaged, enjoyed and exploited, free labor on the Net." Along these lines, Liu and Scholz ask: How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation and "the urban"?
This pamphlet aims to understand "the urban" through the lens of digital and not-digital work in terms of those less visible sites and forms of work such as homework, care work, interactivity on social networking sites, life energy spent contributing to corporate crowd sourcing projects, and other unpaid work. While we are discussing the shift of labor markets to the Internet, the authors contend that traditional sweatshop economies continue to structure the urban environment.
The pages of this pamphlet unfold between a film still from Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer on the front cover and an image by Lewis Hine on the back. Set in the near ...
A Report from Trust: Media City Seoul 2010
The first physical art work that you encounter when entering "Trust: Media City Seoul," the sixth edition of Korea's international media arts biennial, is Willem de Rooij's Bouquet VII, a collaboration with local florist Kim Da Ra. A large-scale spherical gathering of blossoms in various hues of pink stands on a pedestal, resembling a centerpiece at an upscale wedding or a museum benefit party. The floral arrangement seamlessly integrates natural and synthetic flowers, blurring the boundary between the real and the artificial. Innocuous and timeless, this work sets the tone for this year's Media City, an exhibition that eschews the embrace of new technologies in visual art in favor of a return to more traditional media and a broader definition of the term "media" itself. Bouquet VII also subtly introduces a method utilized by many of the artists in the exhibition: the conflation of fiction and reality.
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(Installation view at Discovery Museum, Newcastle, courtesy the artists. Photograph: Louise Hepworth)
This interview follows on from a project called "Coal Fired Computers (300,000,000 Computers - 318,000 Black Lungs)" carried out in Newcastle in spring 2010 for the AV Festival. The project, by Graham Harwood, Matsuko Yokokoji with Jean Denmars involved a means of producing a physical diagram between components in production as they undergo transformations across different kinds of time, politics, matter, knowledge, and vitality. The project found a way of working with such things that was particularly powerful. The interview begins with a discussion of CFC but also moves off into databases and a certain understanding of their material force. One thing we don't cover in the interview is the detail of the Coal Fired Computers project's work with miner activists, including the inspirational Dave Douglass. (See information on his memoirs here ). More of this can be found in a booklet about the project here, including links to all the groups involved. The interview was carried out by email in May and June 2010.
In Search of Reality at the Berlin Biennial
This disjunct between reality and its illusory other, the world of privileged consumerism, was at the heart of the 6th Berlin Biennial. In the exhibition catalog, curator Kathrin Rhomberg wrote that there is a growing "gap between the world we talk about and the world as it really is." In an effort to close this gap, the Biennial wrestled with contemporary issues and realities far beyond the gallery walls - an all-too-rare impulse in the hermetic field of visual art.
Unfortunately, this Biennial may well have convinced many of its visitors that artists should stick to the studio; too many of the works lacked any nuance in their portrayal of external realities. There was a highly unpleasant video of a horse being knocked off its feet, subtly titled Problems with Relationship. There was Bernard Bazile's inept installation of shouty protest videos from Paris. There was Sebastian Stumpf running into private garages just as the doors closed behind him, Indiana Jones-style.
Yet there were also moments of brilliance along the way. At its best, the Biennial yielded keen insights into the conditions of contemporary capitalism and the relationship between the personal and the political. Without further ado, here are some of the highlights.
A Conversation with Graham Harwood and Jean Demars on Coal Fired Computers at SPACE, June 1st
On June 1st media theorist Matthew Fuller will interview Graham Harwood and Jean Demars at SPACE in London for the Coal Fired Computers project by Harwood and Yokokoji (YoHa) that recently premiered at the AV Festival in New Castle, UK. For Harwood, every media used has a series of power relations that comprise its media ecology. The thread that seems to bind his oeuvre is exposing these power structures. (For more, read an interview with Harwood by Michael Connor, published last year to Rhizome.) Continuing with his examinations into the conditions of the marginalized and working class, Coal Fired Computers speculates about the "global fuel reliance, the price of a computer measured against the lives of 318,000 miners with choked up lungs." The work consists of a bank of computers powered by a coal-fired boiler.
[Installation at the AV Festival, Source: Jon & Alison]
By placing the boiler and computer side-by-side, Coal Fired Computers brings to the fore the "invisible" work force needed to supply the fuel and raw materials necessary for this technology to function, as well as the environmental impact of these energy sources. Laborers from countries like China, Vietnam and India toil in coal mining fields to enable the production of energy to run technology - outsourcing the health and environmental risks of this method to elsewhere.
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The Representative (2005) - Carey Young
The Representative is a 'portrait' of a call centre worker that can be accessed by telephone.
Call centres are an increasingly ubiquitous and technocratic interface between large organisations and the public, and their spread has been described as endemic to a globalised world. With The Representative, visitors are invited to sit within an installation of domestic lounge-type furniture and use a single phone to connect direct to a call centre agent working at a remote location. The callers are offered the chance to 'get to know' the agent, and thus to experience a 'portrait' of the call centre agent accessible via a call centre interface. Young hired the agent and defined a 'vignette' of them by agreeing a generic script of topics for possible conversation to be offered to callers at the start of each call, based on interviews with the agent about their personal background and experiences of call centre work. Following these initial options, calls were unscripted and based on the conversational interests of the caller.
The Representative is a development of Nothing Ventured, an earlier work by Carey Young which was staged at fig-1, London in 2000, in which she hired a call centre to 'represent' her. The Representative, at its simplest level, offers a view of the life and experiences of a call centre operative whose individuality and identity would normally be denied to the caller. The calls would exist somewhere between a personal chat, an interview, the reality-TV style exposure of a 'civilian', a script, an exposé of working conditions, a piece of journalistic research, a portrait and a service, with the caller put in the position of researcher, audience, voyeur, client and potential friend.


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It could be a repurposed word like tuhao (which LL informs us was once a 1,500-year-old word for a bullying landlord), a mash-up neologism you've seen (and liked) online, or something altogether new (Forget jetpacks. Where is my word for being just outside of the pizza delivery zone, Future?).
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The Science of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body's Energy Systems + PDF
The Science of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body's Energy Systems [AudioBook]
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Almost 20 years ago, a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon and researcher named Norman Shealy was introduced to a young woman with a special gift: she could 'see' illness in other people with only her intuition to guide her. After extensive testing, Dr. Shealy concluded that her ability to diagnose illness – even from remote distances – was 93% accurate. Today that 'medical intuitive' – Caroline Myss – is a legend in the field of intuition and energy healing, with three New York Times bestsellers to her credit, including her current blockbuster Sacred Contracts.
Now, in a major publishing event, these two pioneering voices are together again in a revolutionary self-care curriculum, on The Science of Medical Intuition.
First presented by Myss and Shealy at a series of influential workshops, The Science of Medical Intuition is designed to help listeners take control of their total health, through intuitive self-diagnosis and healing techniques.
Complete on 12 enriching sessions – over 12 hours of learning – and enhanced by a large format workbook developed exclusively for this course, The Science of Medical Intuition covers every phase of Myss' and Shealy's groundbreaking approach to self-care including:
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At last, here is a full toolbox of self-diagnostic practices, visualizations, and healing insights, taught by Myss and Shealy in their own words, on The Science of Medical Intuition.
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The art and science of medical intuition • Trust in chaos • The archetypal education process • The evolution of human consciousness • Intuition is not a gift • From evolution to revelation • Asking intuitive questions • Energy management • Wise use of medical intuition • More
Intuition through the ages • The field of para-psychology • Medical clairvoyance • Your unfinished business • Elmer Green • Creativity and intuition • The nature of self-healing • Ethical use of intuition • "Fight, flight, or sainthood" • More
Observing your choices • Honesty in self-evaluation • What is awareness? • Illness as divine design •Getting answers vs. getting direction • Recognizing when a perception is not your own • The three levels of intuition • Your choices and their consequences • More
The story of our DNA • How the nervous system develops • Intuition as "vibrational homeopathy" • Chakras and their corresponding glands • The power of thought and imagery • Relaxation and creative visualization • Hans Eysenck • More
Guided imagery for feeling the body • Guided imagery for balancing attitudes and emotions
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The wondrous short novel, The Maid's Version, is an ideal vehicle for Woodrell. It is packed with colorful characters who grieve, suffer and die with a kind of admirable zest. Drunks and fools abound. Some are ruthless while others are good-natured and lovable: Strong-willed women who bear unrelenting grudges, children raised in stunning poverty, crazed preachers, bank robbers, petty criminals, gypsies and psychotics — all wind their way through this powerful tale of disaster in West Table, Missouri, in 1929, on the day that the Arbor Dance Hall exploded and burned, killing 42 people and maiming numerous others. (The disaster in Woodrell's book is based on an actual dance hall explosion in West Plains, Missouri, in 1929; the reason for the explosion is still unknown.)
Like most Woodrell novels, The Maid's Version is filled with dark humor. Especially notable is the author's description of the body parts that literally rained on the West Table community. Citizens were distressed to find fingers, teeth and feet in their gardens the following year and many home owners hesitated to clean their gutters since fragments of the victims frequently ended up there. Of course, all of this added to West Table's folklore and is recounted by local historians to this day.
The two sisters at the heart of this novel — Alma and Rose — are striking opposites. Raised in poverty but in close proximity to people who have wealth and security, Alma marries a hopeless drunk named Buster and spends a lifetime as a housemaid. She is also filled with bitter reproaches and harbors resentments for alleged abuse and multitudes of imagined slights. Rose, the younger sister, has learned to survive by "pizzazz." Specifically, "if men were smitten by her lyric eyes and fluctuating mounds and scented sashay, well, let them display their feelings in meaningful ways: clothes, hats, rent and a big weekend at the Peabody in Memphis."
While Alma slaves in the kitchens of the wealthy, stealing scraps of food to pass on to her three children, Rose is sequestered in a well-furnished room paid for by the banker, Arthur Glencross (the husband of Corinne Glencross, who is Alma's employer). However, despite their differences, Alma and Rose are devoted sisters. In time, Alma reluctantly becomes a "go-between" for Rose and Arthur. However, since Rose and Alma never learn to read, they must enlist the services of their children to read Arthur's love notes.
Rose, the light-hearted temptress, is not only one of the casualties of the Arbor Dance Hall disaster; she is one of 20 victims who were burned and/or mutilated beyond recognition. As a consequence, her remains are in the mass grave beneath a 10-foot black angel. However, the cause of Ruby's death becomes an obsession for Alma. She is determined to know who was responsible for the explosion. Was it the gypsies who bitterly resented being driven from West Table? Was it Preacher Willard, who often harangued the "young, decadent fools" outside the Arbor Dance Hall telling them they were doomed because "they shook their bodies all about in thrall to impudent music and smoked cigarettes." Willard often proclaimed "I'll blow this place to Kingdom soon and drop these sinners into the boiling pitch! See how they dance then!"
Then there are the petty thieves who allegedly had plans to rob a safe by using and excess of explosives. Could it be that their plans miscarried with unforeseen results? Then, again, perhaps it was vengeful act carried out by the cuckold husband, Charles Lathrop who decided to kill his wife, her lover and himself in the explosion. And then, there is poor Arthur Glencross who has become slightly unhinged by Ruby's decision to abandon him. After all, a number of witnesses met Arthur running away from the dance hall after the explosion when everyone else was running toward it.
In the final analysis, solving the mystery of the Arbor Dance Hall explosion may be irrelevant. Much of The Maid's Version resembles a variation on Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology in which a small town's dead speak from their graves and their combined stories shapes a poignant history of the town and its citizens. In this instance, Woodrell creates memorable portraits of a host of characters who came to the Arbor Dance Hall on the fateful night. Many were young were newly weds, full of promise and on the brink of life's great adventure. As tragic as their demise may be, Woodrell stresses the singular fact that "they died dancing."
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell. Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 164 pages.


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Okay, so when I consider the concept of streaking (and this is truly a subjective things as far as I am concerned - every person is different.) I have always thought of it as running/jogging for one mile under your own power. When considering walking as part of this I would consider Gallowalking programs as falling under this running/jogging criteria and would totally consider this as eligle for streakdom.
But how much walking would be too much? Is there a limit? I only ask because when I consider the run/walk dichotomy, I had always thought about it in terms of my own walk breaks for long runs which sometimes might be a minute of walking for every 8-9 minutes of running. But as I review his program the frequency and timing of walk breaks changes based on pace so some people would actually be walking for 60 seconds and then jogging for 30 seconds.
So my question to you would be - would you consider this as meeting the criteria for running/jogging as far as streaking goes (and I guess as far as the USRSA.might be concerned).
As I consider my move over to total barefoot/minimalist running, one of my options that I am considering isto implement in a similar fashion to Galloway or your typical Couch to 5K program where I would have running for a minute and then walking for a minute, gradually increasing the running portion until I can do a full mile. Do you think this would/should count towards streaking?
No, I havent started this yet, so however you answer is fine. I wouldnt really consider it until I checked with the USRSA anyway but wanted some other opinions.
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Jeff - I consider myself a runner - even though some may question that. After completing c25k and then OHR (and being injured and in PT a couple of times) I stumbled onto Galloway's website and started following SOME of his advice. For me, the run/walk has allowed me to safely increase my mileage and keep my HR much lower than it would be if I ran continuously. It has also made my runs much more enjoyable.
I did my first half marathon in August and had such a good experience that I'm signing up for my next one in November. I have been using a 1:1 ratio and am trying to transition to a 2:1 before the November race, but I'll just take one day at a time. I'm making slow progress - but at least it is progress.
I've been counting all of this in my streak here. I don't know what USRSA would say, but I don't plan to pursue that, so I really don't care. All I know is that the group here has made me much more consistent.
I consider myself a runner even though I walk more than I run. I also can walk faster than I run most of the time. The pedometer that I use counts steps and what it calls aerobic steps. It starts counting the steps as aerobic when I take more than 60 steps in 60 seconds. (I think. I'd have to go find the instructions since I've been using this one since 2006.) It also calculates the time spent doing aerobic steps.
If it counts my steps as aerobic and tells me how long I spent at that rate, I count it as a run. I'm mostly running/walking by feel rather than heart rate now, although I was using a HRM for a long time and know that my speed is in my aerobic range.
One of the coaches of our training group commented one time that anyone who comes out at 6 AM on Saturday morning to go 10 miles in the rain is a runner. Even if they are walking.
I may be old and slow, but I'm getting older and faster.
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Only requirement USRSA has is that you run 1 mile without stop. So, as long as you do the first mile, you are free to run as you will, I think.
Just my 2 centimos.
Only requirement USRSA has is that you run 1 mile without stop. So, as long as you do the first mile, you are free to run as you will, I think.
My thoughts too -- as long as you do 1 mile you are meeting the requirements.
Got an official answer from the USRSA and they say you have RUN for one mile, so any walk breaks supposedly would negate the mile as part of the streak. But again, to each his own and this whole streak thing is a completely personal thing - that's why it's on the honor system.
Well, I guess I'm not official then. The last time I ran a continuous mile was in the spring of 1958 when I was 16 years old.
Bah. Who needs their approval anyway, right RR? The only thing that really matters is what it means to you.
Well, I guess I'm not official then. The last time I ran a continuous mile was in the spring of 1958 when I was 16 years old.
Whatever you are doing keep doing . . . no one says you have to be official to be a streaker!
Whatever you are doing keep doing . . . no one says you have to be official to be a streaker!
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Program at Augsburg College helps student "StepUP" to a new life
These college students are not only making a commitment to education, they are also making a commitment to sobriety, and Augsburg College is giving them that extra boost that they may need through the StepUP Program. The StepUP Program is for students who are chemically dependent and are trying to turn their lives around. In order to qualify for the StepUP Program, students must be in recovery and sober for six months. The StepUP Program offers these students a chance to not only achieve academic success, but success in their commitment to sobriety.
This is a unique program that, as far as program director Don Warren knows, is not offered at any other college campus throughout the United States. Warren came up with this idea four years ago while working as director of the Academic Enrichment Program at Augsburg. Students he dealt with, some of which were graduates of the Hazelden Center for Youth and Families, told Warren that it is very hard to live on a college campus and be successful in a recovery program. Their only support came from either an AA group or their sponsor.
Warren then designed a program to help students not only succeed in academics, but also in achieving sobriety. During its first year, the program served 23 students. Today, in its fourth year, there are 35 students enrolled in the program. Warren said he was told not to be surprised if there was an 85 percent relapse rate the first year. In his program, the first year, there was a relapse rate of 12 percent, last year it was 8 percent.
Students in this program are not only from Minnesota, but come from 21 different states and Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and Lebanon.
"We work hard to give these students serenity in a college living area, and provide them with social experiences," Warren said. "This is not a prevention or treatment program, but a recovery program, which encourages and supports the students to live more independently."
Many times a student's success rate is reflected in grades. Warren said no students in the program are on academic probation and that the average grade point of the students is 3.1.
Students who sign up for the program must sign a contract, committing themselves to recovery and academic progress. Services offered by the program include:
Assistance with admissions, applying for financial aid and course selection.
Separate, chemical-free housing.
One-on-one and group tutoring by the staff.
Academic advising.
Advocacy with faculty and staff.
Extracurricular activities.
The United States Department of Education has invited Warren and assistant director Dave Hadden to present their program at its 14th Annual National Meeting on Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention in Higher Education, which will be held Oct. 14-17 in Pittsburgh, Penn. Warren said this is quite an honor and it will give them a chance to tell others in the academic world about this program.
For more information on Augsburg's StepUP program, visit their Web site at www.augsburg.edu/stepup.


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Live Stream for Evening Performance of "As You Like It" on Saturday, March 1st
Minnesota State University, Mankato will break new ground by broadcasting one of its theatre productions live and online on the evening of Saturday, March 1st, brought to you by a collaboration of Information & Technology Services and Department of Theatre & Dance
Maverick Visual Productions, a unit of Information & Technology Services, will broadcast the Department of Theatre & Dance's performance of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" on Saturday, March 1st, at 7:30 pm. The production, a result of collaboration between the two departments, will be streamed live on MavTUBE and later archived here. This will be the first time for a Minnesota State University, Mankato's theatre production to be broadcast, either live or recorded.
The live stream will include multiple camera angles, shot from high-definition cameras placed at the rear and the sides of the auditorium. HD recording technology will enable viewers with fast Internet connections to watch the stream in high definition. Sound for the stream will be provided by microphones installed at both sides of the proscenium.
Maverick Visual Productions technicians plan to perform a live-mixed production, which means they will be switching the view from one camera to another right on the spot during the play. They will attend various rehearsals and live performances to prepare themselves for achieving this goal.
The Department of Theatre & Dance often works with material from the public domain, which allows for streaming or other forms of sharing performances. Considering the great real-world learning experience this kind of joint effort offers to students in both programs, Information & Technology Services and the Department of Theatre & Dance hope to continue their collaboration in the future.
More information about Minnesota State Mankato's production of "As You Like It" can be found here.
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Taggart chosen top First SergeantBy Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen 177th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Photo courtesy Master Sgt. Christopher R. Taggart
Combat seems to forge exceptional
For the second time in four years, a 177th First Sergeant was chosen as the Air National Guard's First Sergeant of the Year. And like the previous recipient Master Sgt. Daniel Mitchell Jr. served with the 177th Security Forces and had also served in Afghanistan.
Yet nearly a year ago, awards and honors were the furthest things from Master Sgt. Christopher R. Taggart's mind.
As the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron First Sergeant, Taggart had been dealing with various types of issues, ranging from handling emergency leave requests, to managing the convoy operations for a visit between President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Two months into his tour at Bagram Airfield, on the morning of May 19, Taggart found himself in the middle of a major coordinated attack by insurgents.
The attack began like most others, with indirect fire rocket propelled grenades and mortars, which quickly escalated into small arms fire with the insurgents attacking various points of the base's perimeter.
While under enemy fire, Taggart transported more than 200 Airmen to the fight. In the ensuing hours, Taggart led a group of Airmen in transporting nine armored vehicles to the base defenders.
"Taggart's quick and decisive actions were instrumental in eliminating enemy forces and defending the base," said Maj. Jan J. Burgess, Taggart's Security Forces Commander at the 177th Fighter Wing.
For 13 hours after the attack, Taggart stayed on duty moving food and water to 106 Security Forces posts to sustain operations.
Lt. Gen. Gilmary M. Hostage III, the commander of United States Air Force Central Command would later assess the assault as "the largest attack on an Air Force defended base in 40 years."
The 455th Expeditionary Security Force Squadron was named Air Force Central Command's 2010 Outstanding Large Expeditionary Security Forces Unit and Taggart received a Meritorious Service Medal for his service.
It did not end there.
It almost seems fitting that the last 177th First Sergeant to be chosen as the ANG's First Sergeant put together the package nominating Taggart for the prestigious 2011 Air National Guard Outstanding First Sergeant of the Year Award quite an honor considering he was competing against first sergeants from every Air Guard unit in the United States and its possessions.
On April 22, Lt. Gen. Harry A. Wyatt III, Director of the Air National Guard, announced the awardees Taggart was chosen.
"These Air National Guard outstanding Airmen epitomize the concept of 'Citizen Airmen' and are role models for peers and subordinates alike," said Wyatt.
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Justin Bartha had his own way of researching the closed community of Hasidic jews for his new movie "Holy Rollers" -- he was blessed with extremely loud neighbors.
"I lived above an Hasidic family for a couple of years in Los Angeles," Bartha tells PopcornBiz. "They had a wayward son and he was always fighting with the family. It would keep me up at night listening to them scream at each other."
"That's where the initial idea of my character came from."
Bartha began to develop his "Holy Rollers" character Yosef Zimmerman as a result. In the film opening in theaters tomorrow, Zimmerman has been outcast from his family with the exception of tense emotional standoffs standoff. His late night clubbing and his line of work -- smuggling Ecstasy pills from Europe -- has a lot to do with the family tension.
Bartha said he and co-star Jesse Eisenberg would travel to Hasidic-heavy sections of Brooklyn to observe, but they were never welcome to join or speak to people from this "very insular community."
"They don't take a shine to anyone but their own," he says. "They don't enjoy mingling with us secular Jews."
He also spoke to Orthodox Jews and "read a lot" to further his insight. But in terms of playing Yosef, he had the character goldmine living downstairs.
"On the outside they seemed like this tight little family," Bartha says. "But behind closed doors, I would hear them constantly fighting and having problems with their son."
Justin Bartha's Inspiration: Eavesdropping on Neighbors
Justin Bartha had his own way of researching the closed community of Hasidic jews for his new movie "Holy Rollers" -- he was blessed with extremely loud neighbors.


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- Financial support
- Bursary or student finance if you're eligible
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PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) will allow you to teach in state schools in England and may allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you'd like to teach in.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
- Course length
- 1 year
- Date you can apply from
- 8 October 2019
- Date course starts
- September 2020
- Website
- http://www.scchs.org.uk
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- Interview process
- How school placements work
- Fees
- Financial support
- Requirements
- About the training provider
- Training with disabilities and other needs
- Contact details
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About the course
Professional Studies Every aspect of the programme is focused upon developing trainees as professionals. Schools are involved in the recruitment and selection of trainees and want to employ the most competent of teachers in their schools. The central training sessions address the key areas of professional practice including: - assessment, lesson planning, behaviour management, Safeguarding Level 1, Data and Progress 8, EAL, Inclusion and Diversity, Literacy, Phonics, Numeracy and Special Educational Needs and Disability; this training continues for trainees in their schools. Subject specific training is also delivered centrally and continues under the guidance of mentor and PT. St Mary's University deliver all elements of the PGCE academic reading and writing.
Curriculum Studies The training programme is designed to develop subject knowledge and understanding of the current curriculum issues in the chosen subject or phase of training. In the classroom The programme is designed to develop pedagogical skills. The school- based training begins with observations of experienced practitioners where trainees learn to identify key elements of a successful lesson. Small group teaching, team teaching and co -planning of lessons are integral to build confidence and expertise. With this experience, trainees begin to develop all the skills of an outstanding teacher, independently and confidently planning and teaching. By the end of the training programme they will be teaching 70 -80% of a newly qualified teacher.
The Assessment of Trainees For the successful completion of the course, trainees must demonstrate competence against all the QTS standards, and need to have successfully completed the Skills Tests before the course begins. Trainees will be continually assessed through lesson observations. The Professional Tutor will complete a TPR each half-term which documents the progress made in each of the Standards. This is moderated by the PLT. Throughout the year, evidence will be collected in lesson observation, training and subject knowledge file and evidence against the standards collated in a final presentation file. This evidence is also moderated by St Mary's University.
Interview process
The selection procedures which follow aim to ensure that:
Entry requirements specified in DfE Qualified Teacher Status Standards (2012) are applied carefully, giving due weight to academic equivalencies, experiences and motivation.
Entrants are given a sound understanding of the nature and demands of the course in order to assure successful applicants complete the course and enjoy their new profession in education
Selection will be based on: - a teaching activity related to the age and phase of the class, completion of a written task and a formal interview.
Documentation Applicants are asked to bring to the interview the relevant certificates which verify the academic profile described on the application form. Successful applicants will also be asked to bring appropriate certification and other documentation as requested to verify their identity and for the DBS check, prior to the start of the course. The document check is made by the Administrator and provides an audit for registration purposes at the commencement of the course. All documents must be 'original' and not a photocopy. Copies of critical documents will be stored on file under the new GDPR guidelines.
How school placements work
All trainees teach in two schools during their training year. Their second school placement is chosen to provide a different context to their main school experience. Trainees will have a mentor and PT in this placement. A Partnership Link Tutor (PLT) is assigned to each trainee; each half term she/he will visit the trainee in school to support, observe and QA the school-based experience to moderate and to ensure consistency of training across the Partnership.
Financial support
You'll get a bursary of £9,000 if you have a degree of 2:2 or above in any subject.
You don't have to apply for a bursary - if you're eligible, you'll automatically start receiving it once you begin your course. Find out about eligibility and how you'll be paid.
You may be eligible for a loan while you study – note that you'll have to apply for undergraduate student finance.
Find out about financial support if you're from outside the UK.
We will be looking for a second class Honours Degree as the minimum requirement. A 2:1 or better is preferred in all cases, however a 2:2 will be accepted if the shortlisting panel see potential in the candidate.
All entrants will have attained as a minimum a Grade C/4 at GCSE (or equivalent) examinations in English and Mathematics (and Science if applying for the Primary phase course).
Personal qualities
We are looking for enthusiastic applicants with very good communication skills, the determination to succeed, a commitment to working hard and the ability to work with others. Successful applicants are confident and passionate about teaching and also able to contribute to the wider school ethos and community. Training to teach is both challenging and rewarding. Developing excellent interpersonal skills will enable trainees to support the learning of groups of young people from diverse backgrounds effectively. We are looking for people who strive to improve and who are committed to their own professional development.
Other requirements
All entrants will go through an enhanced Disclosures and Barring Service DBS, in order to ascertain that they have no criminal background which might prevent them from working with children. In addition, entrants are required to sign a declaration that they have not previously been excluded from teaching or working with children.
School experience is a desirable characteristic but not essential and no applicant would be rejected because of a lack of school experience.
About the training provider
St Cuthbert's Catholic High School is a place where trainees are offered the opportunity to learn, to lead and to inspire. We are an 11-18 provider and have an excellent reputation for educating young men. As an outstanding (Ofsted, April 2016) institution our students achieve extremely high standards across the curriculum and well beyond it, demonstrating creativity, intelligence and resilience. We were recently awarded both Teaching School and National Support School status by the Department for Education and have a wide network of partnership schools. St Cuthbert's is an outstanding and exciting place to work, we are in the top 8% of outstanding schools and as a School Direct trainee you would be fully immersed into the life of the school. We have a high quality of training provision led by very experienced practitioners. We have a proven track record of our trainees achieving exceptionally well as part of their training year and beyond. Our personalised training programmes are designed to support you at the first stage of your teaching career and prepare you for life beyond your NQT. A very high percentage of trainees on our programme either gain employment in their placement schools, or within our Partnership of schools. We work with both Carmel Teacher Training Partnership as well as Sacred Heart SCITT. In both training partnerships successful completion leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and 60 credits towards Masters accreditation.
About the accredited body
Sacred Heart Newcastle SCITT is a partnership of over 20 Primary and Secondary schools. We are passionate about recruiting, developing and employing the very best graduates into the profession. We offer a unique, bespoke training programme which blends the best of both worlds; on the job experience and high-quality academic study.
Train with us and you'll be based in a school that cares about your future. From day 1 you'll be treated like a member of staff, whilst also having the benefits of university life through our integrated ePGCE programme with Newcastle University.
Training with disabilities and other needs
All Schools within the Carmel Teacher Training Partnership and Sacred Heart SCITT are fully accessible. Provision for additional support where needed is provided on site. Please contact Lynn Anderson on firstname.lastname@example.com with any specific disability access requirements.
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Gretna Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
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What should I do if my car is towed?
If your car is towed for violating Minneapolis' Snow Emergency parking rules, it will be taken to the Minneapolis Impound Lot. The Minneapolis Impound Lot, at 51 Colfax Ave. N. (2 blocks South of Glenwood Avenue and West of Lyndale Avenue), is open 24 hours a day during Snow Emergencies.
You will be responsible to pay for the ticket and a towing charge, and a storage fee will apply if your vehicle is left at the Impound Lot for an extended period. You can call 311, or (612) 673-3000 if calling from outside Minneapolis, to find out if your car is at the Minneapolis Impound Lot and the towing/storage fees that may apply. You can also find out what forms of documentation (such as proof of ownership, a valid government-issued photo ID, etc.) you will need to recover your vehicle.
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Shootout at Muskegon social club leaves 3 dead
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A man was jailed Sunday after a shootout outside of a western Michigan social club killed two men and a woman and injured five others, authorities say.
Muskegon police got a call about 2 a.m. Sunday saying there was gunfire at the Elks Charity Lodge, according to MLive.com.
Police said they found two men dead outside the club. A 20-year-old woman was shot and run over by a driver trying to flee police, police said. She died at a hospital. Police said they were searching Sunday afternoon for the vehicle that struck the woman.
All the victims were from the Muskegon area, police said. They said the five injured all had gunshot wounds.
Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson said a man has been jailed in the attack. He was wanted on a warrant that was unrelated to Sunday's shootings, Hilson said.
Muskegon Public Safety Director Jeffrey Lewis said investigators are trying to sort out what happened, with his department's entire detective staff working with officers from other jurisdictions.
"We have a lot of stories," Lewis said. "We think we have some evidence that's going to help us."
The lodge was the site of a shooting in June. A Muskegon man was arrested, MLive.com reported. Other details weren't immediately available.


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Got this shot on a bicycle ride north of Steamboat Springs in 2008.
Starlight Spectacular Preparations
As the sun sets behind the Rockies, volunteers are hard at work preparing for the 2013 Starlight Spectacular bicycle ride, which starts and ends at the Garden of the Gods. The ride starts at 10:30 PM and winds through the streets of Colorado Springs to downtown and back. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary, so make plans now to take part in this special event.
Siamese Gods
The Siamese twins in Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Caught the sun right as it was setting. That required a quick run up the trail to the stone structures. Luckily I arrived just in time.
Fintastic Sunrise
The outstanding geologic features of the Garden of the Gods are the ancient sedimentary beds of deep-red, pink, and white sandstones, conglomerates and limestone that were deposited horizontally, but have now been tilted vertically and faulted by the immense mountain building forces caused by the uplift of the Rocky Mountains and the Pikes Peak massif. The following Pleistocene Ice Age resulting in erosion and glaciation of the rock, creating the present rock formations. Evidence of past ages; ancient seas, eroded remains of ancestral mountain ranges, alluvial fans, sandy beaches and great sand dune fields can be read in the rocks. -wikipedia
Garden of the Gods
Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak from the visitor's center in Colorado Springs early on a summer morning.
Water Ripples
Standing in Medano Creek in Great Sand Dunes National Park a couple of weeks ago. The ripples in the water are part of the surge flow phenomenon of the park. It's really quite interesting as the ripples appear our of no where. One minute the water is flat, the next minute these ripples occur as sand dams upstream break and allow water to 'surge' down the creek. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Weather Beaten
The highest sand dunes in Great Sand Dunes National Park rise to a height of 755 feet, but from this vantage point as we were leaving the park they look almost as tall at the 13,000 foot peaks in the distance. The dunes cover over 300 square miles and can be seen for miles before you arrive at the park. I captured this image of the dunes in the early evening as the sun was still fairly high in the western sky and we were heading back to town and our hotel for the night. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Boys Toys
A reflection of life on Dillon Lake in Colorado. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Rosie Path
Happy World Photo Day! I made this image in June as we were taking in a hike in Silverthorne, Colorado. The wildflowers were in full bloom along this path making for a very enjoyable walk through the woods. I had found the trail through some online research and Google Maps. Looked like a nice hike and it did not disappoint. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Mountain Blues
Along Ten Mile Creek Trail outside of Frisco, Colorado. We were told about this trail by a hiker on another trail we hiked a couple of days earlier. That woman said this was one of her favorite hikes as it ended up being for us too. We saw a few people on the trail that morning, but I think the threat of rain was keeping some away. As you can tell by the water drops on the foliage, we did not escape without a little rain. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Freedom Flag
Happy Fourth of July! I made this on Saturday as we were returning home from Colorado. We saw this neat looking old building as we were passing through Fairplay, Colorado and had to stop to capture it. The town was getting ready for their Fourth of July celebration and had placed little flags in the flower pots along the street. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Sprague Sunrise
Sunrise on Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. Getting up before dawn can have it's advantages. We finally had a few clouds in the sky on this morning after several days of clear blue skies. I always enjoy what a few clouds add to a scene. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
Bishop's Castle
Remembering not so long ago when social distancing wasn't a thing. This was probably one of the more closed in feeling places I have ever been. So many people all over the place with little respect for personal space. Quite a feat of architecture. Makes you feel like you stepped onto a Harry Potter set. But the sheer number of people inside was enough to put me off. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)


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2013 Geneva Auto Show: Kia Provo Concept Wows the Crowds.
The Kia Provo Concept appears for the first time at the 2013 Geneva Auto Show.
The stunning Provo Concept is not slated for production, but it likely foreshadows future Kia designs.
Highlights include turbocharged hybrid power and a 1-piece carbon fiber dashboard.
If you're digging the Kia Provo Concept's sense of style, you're not alone. It's been one of the biggest hits at this year's Geneva Auto Show, flaunting a sleek yet muscular shape that puts the Kia brand in a whole new light.
Granted, Kia's styling has been a strong suit ever since former Audi designer Peter Schreyer came aboard a few years back. The current Optima, Sportage, Rio and Soul all boast cutting-edge looks.
But the Provo Concept clearly takes it up a notch. Slap a BMW badge on the Provo's nose and the crowds wouldn't question it for a second. The proportions are perfect on this car, and there's a confident crispness to it that recalls Schreyer's Audi days. The consensus seems to be that if Kia built this car, style-conscious car shoppers would be lined up out the showroom door.
Naturally, there are some details here that wouldn't make it to production. The carbon fiber exterior panels and dashboard would have to go, for example, and we doubt the aluminum toggle switches would make the grade. How about the active rear spoiler with adjustable airflow vents? Yeah, that's another one that would likely end up on the cutting room floor.
The Provo Concept's hybrid powertrain, on the other hand, seems pretty doable. The gas engine, a 1.6-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder, is already in service in the Veloster Turbo, and the dual-clutch automatic transmission could be derived from Hyundai's existing DCT. As for the electric motor that drives the rear wheels, well, it depends on how much Kia wants to charge -- but we don't doubt that they've got the requisite technology.
In short, this is a car that could be built. And we'll be very surprised if something like it doesn't end up hitting dealerships within the next few years, whether it's in the form of a redesigned Soul or an all-new model designed to make Kia's lineup a little more upscale.
What it means to you: For now, just enjoy the eye candy, and the fact that you're genuinely ogling a concept car from Kia. How times change, eh? One of the more notable storylines from the 2013 Geneva Auto Show is that Kia is really coming into its own.


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